Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending November 9, 2018

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Foreclosure / Attorneys' Fees: where borrower prevailed on argument that dismissal of foreclosure action was required as bank was not entitled to enforce a mortgage contract containing a fee provision, but bank was successful in enforcing deed agreement against borrower, borrower was not a “prevailing party” and was precluded from recovering fees based on provision […]

Early-Stage Mortgage Delinquencies Dip Again in November as Hurricanesa Impact Wanes

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Transition Rates for 60-Day and 90-Day Delinquency Rose Sharply in Texas and Florida Likely Due to 2017 Hurricanes )–CoreLogicA , a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released its monthly Loan Performance Insights Report which shows that, nationally, 5.1 percent of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency in November 2017. […]

Thursday November 30, Our World in Pictures

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Presidential Supporter Lies by Burned Banners: A supporter of Libre Alliance presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla lies next to a pyre of banners promoting Honduran President and current presidential Juan Orlando Hernandez, in front of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, during a protest claiming electoral fraud, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday. New partial results in the presidential election […]

November 29, 2017: The OT

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The financial crisis of 2007-2008 , also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis , is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. [1] [2] [3] [4] It began in 2007 with a crisis in the subprime mortgage market in […]

BlogWorking People Need a Strong CFPB with a Leader Who Supports Its Existence November 28, 2017

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the Great Recession of 2008 wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, causing millions of families to lose their homes to foreclosure and forcing millions of working people onto the unemployment rolls. Its mission is to protect working people from tricks and traps in consumer financial products like […]